To the Editor: ''Memorials Without a Memory,'' by Dennis Smith (Op-Ed, Nov. 26), compares the process of selecting designs for the World Trade Center memorial with that of the construction of the cathedral dome in Florence by Filippo Brunelleschi....

To the Editor: Witold Rybczynski's comprehensive and compelling article about Central Park, ''New York's Rumpus Room'' (June 22), calls the park ''a democratic arena, where there is no fixed consensus'' and a place where ''users jostle each...